Long Island Railroad,Lirr:A fire in a tower near the switching almost all of Long Island Rail Road on Monday, stranding thousands of travelers on Long Island and Penn Station. Service left on each side of the railway with the exception of Port Washington branch just before 11 am Monday. Some trains begin to move in the afternoon of Monday, LIRR spokesman Mike Charles said. However, these trains will be less and more between, and the passengers to leave New York are likely to face delays and crowded trains. The fire destroyed the decade’s big, old machine switching in a tower east of Jamaica Station in Queens. A worker of the tower was evacuated briefly, and suspended rail service in almost all lines. Firefighters extinguished the flames quickly, but the railroad was still trying to understand the extent of damage was caused.
Shift workers control tower where the trains go beyond what the songs translated into a number of ways. LIRR trains are preparing to begin the transition from the antiquated system called the block-and-spike, as Charles said.
According to the LIRR, 10 rows affected serve between 230,000 and 240,000 people per day. Each of us has been sweating, as here for two hours, waiting for the train; said a passenger on LIRR Penn Station. There is no answer. We go to the service desk, pull, is what they say, and can not honor the ticket for another day, but can not return any money. It is simply ridiculous. They have problems in Jamaica, apparently, the lines of evolution, “said another”. I do not know what is happening, but the main problems of delays. It is not known at this time the situation was resolved.
